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66-vehicle pile-up on I-80 in Clinton County leaves one dead, another dies of medical issue
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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Brent Miller, a state police spokesman, said 55 of the vehicles involved in the crash were commercial vehicles and the others were passengers vehicles. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
One death occurred in the crash and another individual died due to a medical issue unrelated to the crash, state police said Thursday. A number of people were injured and transported to area hospitals, state police said.
Gov. Tom Wolf and officials from PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency discussed the crash in a news conference Thursday.
The snow may have gotten a late start, but by Wednesday evening was falling steadily throughout Bucks County.
As flakes fell, closures began. Montgomery County closed offices at 2 p.m. Some schools, including Quakertown Community School District in Upper Bucks, called an early dismissal.
Less snowfall is expected than initially anticipated, but a foot of snow still is expected in some parts of the county into Thursday morning.
Previous forecasts called for up to two feet of snow in Central and Upper Bucks, but late Wednesday morning, Trent Davis, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said Doylestown and north of it is likely looking at 8 to 12 inches of snow
Lancaster County hospitals to begin giving health care workers COVID vaccine lancasteronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancasteronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A major winter storm is in the forecast this week, potentially impacting the long-awaited delivery of the first coronavirus vaccines in hospitals across Pennsylvania.
The storm is expected to bring possibly up to nearly 20 inches of snow in some parts of the state on Wednesday into Thursday, threatening to knock out power and hinder highway travel.
UPS and FedEx are working to deliver the Covid-19 vaccine to vaccination sites from Pfizer’s plants in Michigan and Wisconsin, but the impending storm could make travel conditions treacherous in the Keystone State.
On Monday, Pennsylvania received its first shipments of the 97,500 doses expected to arrive in the commonwealth this week, with more deliveries on the way. Eight drop offs currently are scheduled for Wednesday, said Randy Padfield, director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.